Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy
A transcription of Nick Bostrom’s “Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy” talk at the effective altruism conference Good Done Right on July 9, 2014.
This talk will build on some of the ideas that Nick Beckstead was talking about before lunch. By contrast with his presentation, though, this will not be a well-presented presentation. [laughter] This is very much a work in progress, and so there’s going to be some jump cuts, and some of the bits will be muddled, etc. But I’ll look forward to the discussion part of this. [Slide 1] What is a crucial consideration? [Slide 2] So I want to talk about this concept of a crucial consideration, which comes up in the work that we’re doing a lot. Suppose you’re out in the forest and you have a map…
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